You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
-- Thomas Sankara, 1985
With typical generosity, the government today offered £20,000 for information leading to the return of the data CDs containing millions of bank account details of Britain’s citizens.
Don’t worry, folks. I’ll be in touch just as soon as I’ve taken a copy or two.